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This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary

Originally published : Pearson, 1993

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 21, 2015)

Includes bibliographical references

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction""; ""Part One: Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Léopold Sédar Senghor Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century""; ""2 Frantz Fanon On National Culture""; ""3 Amilcar Cabral National Liberation and Culture""; ""4 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak?""; ""5 Homi Bhabha Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche and the Colonial Condition""

""Part Two: Theorising the West""""Introduction""; ""6 Edward Said From Orientalism""; ""7 Dennis Porter Orientalism and Its Problems""; ""8 Aijaz Ahmad Orientalism and After""; ""9 Aimé Césaire From Discourse on Colonialism""; ""10 Anthony Giddens From The Consequences of Modernity""; ""Part Three: Theorising Gender""; ""Introduction""; ""11 Chandra Talpade Mohanty Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses""; ""12 Jenny Sharpe The Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence and Counter-Insurgency""

""13 Sara Suleri Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition""""14 Mae Gwendolyn Henderson Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition""; ""Part Four: Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions""; ""Introduction""; ""15 Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge What is Post( -- )colonialism?""; ""16 Anne McClintock The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term 'Post-colonialism'""; ""17 Ania Loomba Overworlding the 'Third World'""; ""18 Arjun Appadurai Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy""

""19 Teshome H. Gabriel Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films""""20 Jean Franco Beyond Ethnocentrism: Gender, Power and the Third-World Intelligentsia""; ""Part Five: Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity""; ""Introduction""; ""21 Deniz Kandiyoti Identity and Its Discontents: Women and the Nation""; ""22 Stuart Hall Cultural Identity and Diaspora""; ""23 Paul Gilroy Urban Social Movements, 'Race' and Community""; ""24 bell hooks Postmodern Blackness""; ""25 Chinua Achebe The African Writer and the English Language""

""26 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o The Language of African Literature""""Part Six: Reading from Theory""; ""Introduction""; ""27 Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan The Construction of Woman in Three Popular Texts of Empire: Towards a Critique of Materialist Feminism""; ""28 Patrick Williams Kim and Orientalism""; ""29 Laura Chrisman The Imperial Unconscious? Representations of Imperial Discourse""; ""30 Laura Mulvey Xala, Ousmane Sembene 1976: The Carapace That Failed""; ""31 Saree S. Makdisi The Empire Renarrated: Season of Migration to the North and the Reinvention of the Present""

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